Olympus Corporation

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Masaomi Tomizawa

Osamu Nonaka

Satoshi Miyazaki

Katsuhisa Kawaguchi

Keiji Kunishige

Manabu Ichikawa

Koichi Shintani

Akio Terane

Akira Hatakenaka

Atsushi Maruyama

Hideaki Yoshida

Takeshi Suzuki

Tsugumoto Kosugiyama

Sumio Kawai

Akira Ueno

Takashi Hamada

Kunio Yamamiya

Yoshinori Matsuzawa

Mitsumasa Okada

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Tatsuya Yamaguchi

Kenta Yumoto

Hiroaki Miura

Akira Yukitake

Takafumi Onishi

Osamu Tokita

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a first image processor, and a second image processor. The imaging unit sequentially acquires image frames whose photography conditions have been changed. The first image processor generates moving image data by performing image processing to maintain continuity between the image frames obtained by changing the photography conditions. The second image processor composes the image frames whose photography conditions have been changed, to generate condition-changed still image data.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method for maintaining continuity between frames of moving image data

An imaging device, comprising, an image sensor that acquires a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object at a first timing, a memory that stores the plurality of images, a second selection section that selects images at a second timing from among images stored in the memory, and a controller that has a movie candidate section that determines movie candidate frames from among the plurality of images in accordance with comparison results of images that have been selected or not selected at the second timing.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

An information discriminating device includes an information acquiring unit, an information discriminating unit, and an information superimposing unit. The information acquiring unit acquires private information to be privately used by a user of the information discriminating device. The information discriminating unit discriminates a public information portion that is also usable as public information accessible by a special majority in the private information acquired by the information acquiring unit from a private information portion unusable as the public information. The information superimposing unit superimposes the private information portion on the public information.

Information discriminating device, information discriminating method, and non-transitory storage medium storing information discriminating program

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, an imaging lens, an AF controller, an image synthesis unit, and a display. The imaging element captures multiple images of an object to obtain a plurality of image data. The imaging lens includes a focus lens and is used for generating an image of the object in the imaging element. The AF controller controls a focus state of the imaging lens. The image synthesis unit synthesizes a region with a large amount of blurriness in image data of a current frame and a region with a small amount of blurriness in image data of a preceding frame obtained before the image data of the current frame, among the plurality of image data obtained by the imaging element by the plurality of times of image capturing during the drive of the focus lens. The display displays an image synthesized by the image synthesis unit.

Imaging apparatus

A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter.

Photographing device, photographing method, and playback method

A camera includes: a shooting section that outputs images of an object; a moving image shooting control section that controls the shooting section to repeat shooting under predetermined shooting conditions at a predetermined frame rate; a moving image generation section that generates moving images based on images shot under the predetermined shooting conditions, respectively; an image extraction section that extracts a first image and a second image based on a predetermined condition from each of the moving images; a display section; and a display control section that performs control to simultaneously multi-display the first image and the second image of each moving image on the display section.

Shooting apparatus and method for controlling shooting apparatus

An imaging device includes a first communication unit, an imaging control unit, and a recording determination unit that determines whether or not an image data is to be recorded according to an operation instruction. The first communication unit transmits recording permission information to an external communication device when a user operation is a recording permission operation, and transmits recording prohibition information to the communication device when the user operation is a recording prohibition operation. The imaging control unit associates image data with determination result determined by the recording determination unit and either one of the recording permission information and the recording prohibition information and controls a recording unit to record the image data.

Imaging device, imaging system, imaging method, and computer-readable recording medium for use in an imaging system including an external communication device

According to the present invention, a mobile terminal device includes: an operation input section which accepts operations; a memory section which previously stores a list of states of the mobile terminal device during use as locking conditions to determine a state at the time of limiting an operation of the mobile terminal device; a state determining section which generates state information in accordance with a state of the mobile terminal device; and a function limiting section which determines whether the state information meets the locking conditions, and switches the mobile terminal device to a locked state to limit an operation of the operation input section, when the state information is determined to meet the locking conditions.

Mobile terminal device, information management device, and information management system

An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of image data obtained by imaging a same subject; a saturation enhancement unit configured to execute saturation enhancement processing of enhancing saturation of at least a partial area of each of the plurality of image data; and a composite image generation unit configured to compare corresponding areas in the plurality of image data after the saturation enhancement processing to select an area having the highest saturation, and execute composition processing of generating composite image data formed of the selected area.

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An imaging system of the present invention comprises a lens unit having a barrel section that contains a photographing optical system, and an operating section provided on the barrel section, and a camera body having an imaging section for converting a subject image formed by the photographing optical system into electrical signals, and a display section for displaying the subject image based on the electrical signals, wherein the lens unit has a transmission section for transmitting information relating to the operation section, and the camera body has a receiving section for receiving information relating to the operating section that has been transmitted from the transmission section, and an association section for displaying the information relating to the operation section that has been received by the receiving section on the display section, and associating information relating to the operating section with functions of the camera body.

Imaging system and control method for imaging system

An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that generates image data; a first communication unit; a first communication control unit that transmits the image data to an external communication device and receives recording information for causing the imaging device to record a subject image included in the image data from the communication device; and a specification information generation unit that generates specification information for specifying the subject image based on the recording information and records the specification information in a recording unit. The recording information includes subject image information. The specification information generation unit records the specification information including the subject image information in the recording unit.

Imaging device, imaging system, imaging method, and computer-readable recording medium

Imaging device, imaging system, imaging method, and computer-readable recording medium associating image data with responsibility acceptance or abandonment information

Provided is an image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device, an AE control section, an image pickup control section that makes the image pickup device perform shooting, an EVF for image observation by looking thereinto, and an electronic display section, the electronic display section and the EVF alternatively displaying an image, wherein in exposure control, the AE control section sets a first exposure condition that is the same as an exposure condition for capturing image data for recording when the image is displayed on the electronic display section, and sets a second exposure condition that is different from the first exposure condition when the image is displayed on the EVF.

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Hachioji, Japan

Masaomi Tomizawa